Ever wondered what a still life smells like? Or whether a beautiful pastoral landscape actually smelt of manure? Well, the Mauritshuis in The Hague will be bringing 17th-century Dutch paintings to life with scent dispensers (which will apparently be “coronavirus-proof”) for its exhibition Fleeting: Scents in Colour. These will range from the “phenomenal stink of [Amsterdam's] canals” in works such as Jan van der Heyden’s View of the Oudezijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam (around 1670), to the scent of powdery flowers and overripe fruit in Abraham Mignon’s Still Life of Flowers and Fruit (1670). 

— Read more in Smelly shows, fast cars and a swamp in a nightclub: the strangest art exhibitions coming up in 2021 at The Art Newspaper.

What does a Vincent van Gogh painting smell like? If it's a vase of sunflowers, you'll get a spritz of citrus and lavender to evoke the south of France, where the post-impressionist created these works. As you're served wine and cheese, Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major will be piped through the speakers.

— The Lume, an "immersive gallery" in Melbourne, opens next month. Read more in You've never seen (or smelled, or tasted) a van Gogh like this at The Age.

Visitors won’t see a physical artwork; instead they are led into a chamber where they can play with several atomisers filled with essences extracted from seaweed, charred seashells and firewood, calamansi and white flowers, incense woods and uprooted mangroves that were collected from the village of Shek O on the southeastern coast of Hong Kong Island after the typhoon.

— Santa Monica fragrance designer Haley Alexander van Oosten's installation, "The Ripening of Mangosteen: A Scent Offering in Fragments", is part of the exhibition To See the Forests and the Trees, looking at the loss of trees in Hong Kong after Typhoon Mangkhut in September 2018. More information at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.